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Re:The Page with No Code by osrec on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:56PM (#34469103)
The choice is with the user. The onus is on the developer to build something good and efficient, otherwise people will not use the product.

If the user is forced to use a terrible government website (as we all are from time to time), disabling JS will fix absolutely nothing there. If anything, it might make things worse, as there will be a bunch of things you simply cannot do without JS (e.g cropping a photo to upload to a passport site - how would you even draw out the crop region without JS?!)

JS is not the problem. Crappy developers and corrupt officials who award key contracts to crappy developers is the problem.

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Re:The Page with No Code by speed_spread on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:42PM (#34469584)
It's the ads that are the problem. A crappy website is sad but fixable. At least it provides some value.

Ads are are a nuisance race to the bottom.

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